Of all the strange phenomena produced by society certainly one of the most puzzling is self-hatred...Why hate yourself when there are so many willing to do it for you! But the ubiquitousness of self-hatred cannot be denied. And it has shaped the self-awareness of these teated as different perhaps more than they themselves have been aware. —Sander L. Gilman, Jewish Self-Hatred
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Irving Louis Horowitz is University Professor Emeritus and Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers University. He is the author ofIsraeli Ecstacies and Jewish Agonies; Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power (now in its fifth edition); andTributes: Personal Reflection on a Century of Social Research.
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Horowitz, I.L. New trends and old hatreds. Soc 43, 44–50 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687353
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687353